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… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to large …

… the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also seeks out new … Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline that utilizes internal analytical standards to accurately measure …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of … with the JGI. Working together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing … genes the algae were expressing, the team sequenced their RNA transcripts. All sequencing was done through the JGI …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew culturing, … sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota … responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major …

Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy … Fellow. Reviewer for major funding agencies and journals including National Institutes of Health, American … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science … shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its … activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught several microbes from known …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … partner, either a eukaryotic microalga or a cyanobacteria, is known as the “photobiont.” Photobiont and … alpine and high latitude ecosystems, deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms can help researchers better model …